Field Medical Associate Director Oncology

Reference number: R2873020

Position Title: Field Medical Associate Director Oncology

Department: Medical Specialty Care Canada

Location: Remote (Field position)

About Sanofi

​We’re an R&D-driven, AI-powered biopharma company committed to improving people’s lives and delivering compelling growth. Our deep understanding of the immune system –and innovative pipeline – enables us to invent medicines and vaccines that treat and protect millions of people around the world. Together, we chase the miracles of science to improve people’s lives.​

About the Job

Join the team transforming care for people with immune challenges, rare diseases, cancers, and neurological conditions. In Specialty Care, you’ll help deliver breakthrough treatments that bring hope to patients with some of the highest unmet needs.​

The purpose of the Field Medical Associate Director Oncology position is to develop the strategy and tactical plan for engagement with the scientific community and to oversee the effective and efficient operation of the oncology MSL, while ensuring that the MSL personnel engage in substantive scientific exchange. Field Medical Associate Director is responsible for strong team capability development and field based medical organization team.

• •Coordinate traversal partnership with internal stakeholders to develop the most effective and efficient strategic plan to interface with external Key Opinion Leaders (KOLs).
• •Guide capability initiatives, including proactive competency gap analysis, contributing to content and curriculum design, conducting training classes where necessary, and monitoring data systems.
• •Manage MSL capabilities and expected performance through MSL coaching, training, and development to ensure excellent execution of their role and achieving strategic goals.
• •Support the generation and communication of scientific and medical insights to internal stakeholders, develop/execute strategic and tactical Medical Engagement Plans, and manage MSL resources and budgets.
• •Partner with the Medical Director, medical advisors, and other internal partners to manage high-level regional stakeholder relationships, contribute to medical engagement planning, and oversee the MSL budget.

Main responsibilities:

Lead and Implement MSL Strategy Development

• •Ensures clarity and alignment of the roles and responsibilities of the MSL function across internal and external stakeholders.
• •Analyses and uses qualitative and quantitative information to understand the critical tasks and resources, including staff, to achieve the desired objectives
• •Supports resource planning for the MSL field force for pre-launch and life-cycle management of products.
• •Attends cross-functional and transversal meetings as needed to collaborate with internal stakeholders that have an impact on MSL strategy
• •Proactively identifies best-practice and sharing across geographies of MSL activities.
• •Ensures job descriptions evolve for territory MSL roles effectively match country launch plans or Medical/ Policy plans for life-cycle products and global guidance/ policies on MSL roles & responsibilities.
• •Ensures appropriate MSL annual planning, objectives and Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are utilized and support MSL managers in monitoring these objectives and KPIs
• •Develop recruiting plan for team and build business case and secure approval for head count changes
• •Support and engage MSL effectiveness measures / gap analyses and aligned training & education curriculum. Identify and communicate synergies within the Sanofi group training resources and programs to maintain and develop a high performing team
• •Ensures alignment of field medical tools and resources to medical strategy. Leads ongoing efficiency initiatives with the implementation of new/optimized systems and tools for MSL activities.
• •Ensures management of field insights and feedback are effectively captured and efficiently shared within Medical Affairs and appropriate business partners.
• •Manage vendor relationships to ensure business objectives timeline adherence and budget adherence are being met.
• •Ensure MSL organization employs a governance towards fulfilling global/regional/local and corporate training requirements and compliance towards applicable internal and external policies and regulations.

Develop, monitor, and execute Region/Country strategic and tactical Medical Engagement Plans

• •Collaborate with Head-Office stakeholders to develop country and territory-level strategic and tactical Medical Engagement Plans.
• •Assess medical launch plans, and region medical strategies.
• •Support MSLs towards the identification, mapping and quarterly review of KOLs to develop and maintain customized engagement plans.
• •Monitor and support MSLs execution of plans with their respective teams and with prioritized KOLs via regular coaching sessions
• •Manage and meet reporting requirements of MSL performance towards set KPIs ensuring excellence in execution of their role towards achieving strategic and tactical goals.

Ensure strong MSL relationships with KOLs, engaging and managing relationships with external stakeholders when applicable

• •Support the identification and prioritization of key territory stakeholders and development of customized engagement plans.
• •Regularly monitor key MSL/KOL relationships via MSL coaching sessions and field visits to ensure quality engagements ensuring aligned scientific information exchange with the KOLs.
• •Review, monitor, and analyze insights from the KOLs on key information concerning the strategy, products, image, or competition to assess KOL needs, priorities, expectations, satisfaction. Engage with select external stakeholders as appropriate.
• •Support, attend, and follow up on scientific congresses, symposia, or other events where appropriate

Communicate scientific and medical information/insights to internal stakeholders to contribute to updates of messages, plans, and strategy

• •Collaborate with internal stakeholders to provide scientific inputs on relevant materials and coordinate training support where appropriate.
• •Provide/organize scientific and technical support to internal stakeholders to facilitate development of medical strategy.
• •Aggregate and communicate KOLs insights on key scientific medical and clinical experience and share with stakeholders.
• •Facilitate and encourage exchange of Medical leadership and best practices via communication and organized meetings and events among MSLs and with other functions, both locally and across geographies and GBUs.

Dimensions/Scope

• •Manage of MSLs, including complete oversight of the near-term needs (e.g. training, coaching, performance evaluations, recognition, disciplinary actions if needed) and long-term requirements (e.g. career plan, etc.)
• •Set, track, and monitor agreed KPIs as well as develop and execute course correction, as necessary.
• •Steer and guide team reporting and planning / KOL reviews monthly / quarterly and annually (where appropriate) in accordance with Medical Affairs strategy.
• •Regular review, Monitor, and analyze data/insights from the field as it relates to feedback from the KOLs on key information concerning our company’s strategy, products, image, or competition.

About you

Required qualifications:

Education

• •Degree from an accredited university (MSc, PhD, Pharm D, MD) required.
• •Specialization in hematological diseases preferred.
• •Post-bachelor’s degree from accredited university (e.g. MBA or equivalent): valuable, not required

Experience

• •Total years of experience – 5+ Years
• •Total years of experience in oncology – 3+ Years
• •Prior experience as an MSL or other field or head-office medical role required.
• •People management experience required, preferably in a field medical role.

Specifics skills

Strategic Thinking: The capacity to anticipate trends, set long-term priorities, and align medical affairs activities with broader organizational and therapeutic area go